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Laura Friedman Williams

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Available: A Memoir of Sex and Dating after a Marriage Ends

Available: A Memoir of Sex and Dating after a Marriage Ends

This is an unflinchingly honest, empowering and humorous story of one woman's love life after divorce.

2022

Laura Friedman Williams

Laura Friedman Williams

Stories

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Human Parts

A Mother on Vacation Without Her Children

Learning How to Be Independent of My Children

5 min readMar 4, 2024

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A Mother on Vacation Without Her Children

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Human Parts

Empty Nesting Before It’s Time

Finding Purpose in the Quiet Days without Kids

7 min readFeb 11, 2024

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Empty Nesting Before It’s Time

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Human Parts

Mothering My First Child

A Journey of Guilt, Anxiety, and Love

9 min readJul 4, 2023

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Mothering My First Child

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Giving Away my Father’s Clothes

When Grief, Anger and Guilt Collide

7 min readMar 20, 2023

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Giving Away my Father’s Clothes

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Human Parts

A Brief Moment in the Life of a Teenage Friendship

Unvoiced envy and longings

4 min readFeb 26, 2023

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A Brief Moment in the Life of a Teenage Friendship

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Laura Friedman Williams

Back to Work After a Long Hiatus

Acclimating to my new job, schedule, sense of purpose

7 min readFeb 12, 2023

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Photo of the author

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Watching the Movie of My Life

Taking a moment to feel and see all the beating hearts under my roof

7 min readFeb 5, 2023

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Watching the Movie of My Life

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Human Parts

Learning How to Live in the Calm After the Storm

When the crises ends and “normal” life resumes

5 min readJan 2, 2023

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Learning How to Live in the Calm After the Storm

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Human Parts

Mastering the Art of Walking and Looking

A child’s perspective on learning to look straight ahead

5 min readDec 3, 2022

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A child walking on a sidewalk

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Human Parts

The Crushing Burden of Other People’s Secrets

I carry the weight of the secrets kept from me

5 min readOct 30, 2022

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Vintage storage chests

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Laura Friedman Williams

Laura Friedman Williams

Book Author

Author of AVAILABLE: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce (Boro/HarperUK June ‘21; Harper360 May ‘21). Mom of three, diehard New Yorker.

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